Community Element
The community element includes community partners who deliver an array of tobacco use prevention, education, cessation and control activities.
Local Health Departments fund and collaborate with community groups, faith-based institutions, minority and grassroots organizations to provide tobacco control activities and build capacity for sustained tobacco use prevention, cessation and control.
Programmatic efforts:
- Education for the community on the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand
smoke - Training for community members as smoking cessation facilitators and tobacco
control advocates - Outreach to ethnic minority and medically underserved populations
Capacity building for local community organizations to conduct tobacco use
prevention and policy initiatives - Development of culturally sensitive programs and materials
In FY 07:
- 101 minority organizations were funded
- 41 faith-based organizations were funded
- 176,470 community members were educated
- 1,882 community leaders were trained
- 105 collaborations with the MOTA program
- 1,458 awareness campaigns conducted in targeted communities.